Tuscaloosa. — Visual artist Iva Gueorguieva will deliver a public lecture Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in Gorgas Library 205 on UA campus.
A native of Bulgaria, Iva Gueorguieva lives and works in Los Angeles. Gueorguieva’s current abstract paintings and sculptures, on display in a two-person exhibition at Sophia Contemporary in London, “investigate notions of space, illusion and movement. Drawing on the legacy of Abstract Expressionism, the artist’s paintings are driven by a sense of urgency, a desire to orchestrate chaos and recreate the complexity of life on canvas. Composed of intricate arrangements of painted paper and fabric collaged on the canvas with a feverish energy and dynamism, her paintings seek to investigate the fine line between the intrinsic illusion of the painting’s plane and the physicality of its surface. The artist’s sculptures echo her painting practice in their exploration of the spatial properties of materials. By combining simple elements such as metal scraps, fabric and stone to create intricate sculptural assemblages, the artist draws her inspiration from the Californian landscape where she resides, whilst referencing the legacy of Neo-Dada and Russian Constructivism.”
Notable group exhibitions include Variations: Conversations in and around Abstract Painting, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Making Sense: Rochelle Feinstein, Deborah Grant, Iva Gueorguieva, Dona Nelson, curated by Margaret Miller, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Fla.; Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF, curated by Jade Dellinger, Tampa (Fla.) Museum of Art; and Desire: Six Los Angeles Artists, Pasadena (Calif.) Museum of California Art; among others.
Her work is included in many public and private collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minn.; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; Art, Design and Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, Calif.
Gueorguieva received the MFA from Tyler School of Art in 2000. Among her awards, she has received the Orange County Contemporary Collectors Fellowship for 2012, the California Community Foundation mid-career fellowship for 2010, and the Pollock-Krasner Grant for 2006. Gueorguieva lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Image credit: Iva Gueorguieva, The Fall of Symmetry, courtesy of the artist.
Iva Gueorguieva’s lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, go here: https://art.ua.edu/resources/visiting-artists/.
Gorgas Library is a five-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. (Map here: http://bit.ly/BusHub2Gorgas ) Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/.
For more information about The University of Alabama’s programs in studio art and art history, go here: https://art.ua.edu/academics/.